Bob-sleigh.



No. 695,3l7. Patented Mar. ll, I902.

H. KURTE.

BOB SLEIGH.

(Application filed May 29, 1901.) (N u M n d e inlllHlllllHi mi NORRIS PEYLRS co. Primouwa. wnsumewm D. c.

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HERMAN KORTE, OF FREEPORT, MINNESQTA.

BOB-SLEIGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,317, dated March 11, 1902.

Application filed May 29,1901. Serial No. 62,422. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN Konrn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Freeport,

in the county of Stearns and State of Minnesota, (post-office address Freeport,) have invented new and useful Improvements in Bob- Sleighs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bob-sleighs, the object in view being to provide a strong, economical, and practical construction of bobsleigh adapted to be attached to any ordinary vehicle-body for converting the vehicle into a sleigh.

It is also an object of the present invention to construct the parts of the bob-sleigh in such manner that they may be readily applied to the axle of a vehicle upon the removal of the wheels.

With the above and other objects in View the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bobsleigh constructed in accordance with the present invention and shown applied to a vehicle-body. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail section through the same, taken longitudinally of the bench. Fig. 3 is also a section taken transversely of the bench. Fig. 4: is a top plan view of the connectingblock or knee-seat, and Fig. 0 is a reverse plan View of the same.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the different figures.

The bob-sleigh contemplated in this invention comprises, essentially, a runner 10, equipped with the usual shoe 11. In constructing a complete bob-sleigh two of such runners are employed, and they are connected the knee are united by a connecting portion 17, which is offset or given an upwardly-extending semicircular bend 18 to form a halfcylindrical projection which is received in a correspondiugly-shaped socket 19, formed in the lower side of a connecting-block or kneeseat 20. The upper side of the block 20 is fiat, as shown in Fig. 4, and bears directly against the lower surface of the bench 12. The block is extended at its opposite ends or provided with flanges 21, which are formed with notches 22 for the purpose of receiving and holding the terminal portions of a U- shaped clip 23, the connecting portion of which is received in the under side of the offset 18 of the knee and in notches 24 in the lower side and near the opposite ends of the connecting-block or knee-seat 18. The terminal portions of the clip 23 extend upward through the notches 22 and also through openings 25, formed through the bench 12, and are finally secured by means of nuts 26 or their equivalent.

In order to brace the knees laterally, I employ a rod 27, the central portion of which is received through an eyebolt 28 at the under side of the bench, from which eye the terminal portions of the brace extend downward at an inclination and divergently, where they are connected at their extremities by means of suitable fasteners 29 to the downwardlydiverging portions of the knee 15, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In lieu of employing a special bench or cross beam 12 the runners and knees, together with the blocks and braces, may be connected directly to the axle of a vehicle,

'thusconverting the same readilyinto a sleigh.

It is, however, preferred ordinarily to connect each pair of runners to a bench or crossbeam, which may be in turn coupled to a vehicle-axle or other part of the running-gear by any convenient means.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, isi In a bob-sleigh, the combination with a pair of runners, and a connecting-bench; of in- Verted-V-shaped knees secured to the runners and provided at their upper ends with semicircular offsets, connecting blocks or kneeseats on the under side of the bench provided with semicylindrical sockets in their lower sides to receive the offsets of the knees and further provided with downwardly and laterally disposed sets of clip receiving notches, U-shaped clips having their con- I the eyebolts and its terminal portions in clined and diverging and connected to the downwardly-diverging portions of one of the knees.

. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HERMAN KORTEa W'itnesses:

J. W. KEEHER, JOHN CREMEES; 

